Gerrit Schoonhoven

Acting

Gerrit Schoonhoven

Born 1958-09-27

Gerrit Schoonhoven (27 Sep 1958 – 20 Oct 2020) was a South African filmmaker, television director and actor. He is best known for directing the soapie Binnelanders.

Acting credits

The Mangler poster
4.9

A laundry-folding machine has been possessed by a demon, causing it to develop homicidal tendencies.

The Mangler

1995

Sweet 'n Short poster
5.4

A disgraced sports presenter falls victim to an accidental head trauma and slips into a coma. He awakens months later to find that South Africa was not as he left it, he is now in the New South Africa, and his multimillion-Rand idea has been stolen from beneath him.

Sweet 'n Short

1991

The Visual Bible: Matthew poster
8.8

The only dramatization using the actual scriptures...word for word from the New International Version (NIV). In Israel, then known as Judea of the Roman Empire, Nazarene Jesus Christ travels around the country with His disciples preaching to the people about God and salvation of their souls.

The Visual Bible: Matthew

1993

Schuks: Pay Back the Money poster
6.8

After losing rugby’s holy grail, the Currie Cup, Schuks (Leon Schuster) sets off on a hilarious journey to pay for what he has done. In lieu of a R1 million fine, the Sports Minister (Desmond Dube) offers Schuks a lifeline to create a documentary film that shows South Africa in a positive light.As the documentary takes shape, the Currie Cup traverses its own perilous journey as it moves from two clueless crooks, Bossie (Ivan Lucas) and Savage (Gerrit Schoonhoven), to an enterprising traffic officer and a conniving pawnbroker, among others.True to form, the “documentary” features a series of brand new candid camera gags for which Schuster is so well known, featuring unsuspecting South African citizens and a host of famous personalities and celebrities - both past and current.

Schuks: Pay Back the Money

2015

Broer Matie poster
NR

A senior farmer of the Little Karoo dies and determines in his will that a brown minister must observe his funeral service. However, it is 1961 and apartheid is the order of the day.

Broer Matie

1984

Behind the camera